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My name is Max.

I'm an Engineering Manager at Gen Digital (formerly Avast Software, the antivirus company) where I work with a team on a variety of backend services and tools (we call it, proudly, The Platform).

Before that, I was a Software Engineer on the same team.

My main area of expertise is writing scalable™ backend services in Python. I've helped to build our Python stack from the ground up. I've participated in huge (and successful) migrations to The Cloud. I've written Python libraries and frameworks, set up and maintained CI/CD pipelines, wrangled legacy code, was on-call for critical services, made sure we are not actually being called at night, set up and run the Python Guild, coached beginner programmers into competent engineers, and more.

Before that I studied "Applied Informatics" at the University of Economics in Prague and acquired a bachelor's degree.

If you want to contact me for some reason, you can do so at kovykmax [at] gmail.com

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